“Sketch to Pose in Pixar’s Presto Animation System”

  • ©Ryan Stelzleni, Bret Parker, Tom Hahn, Sarah Shen, Dan McGarry, and Chen Shen

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Entry Number: 26

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    Sketch to Pose in Pixar’s Presto Animation System

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    Animation rigs for key frame animation typically offer guides for direct manipulation of a model. For example, elbow rotation is conveniently specified by dragging a rotational ring guide. However, these simple guides can be cumbersome and time-consuming to use when posing structures involving multiple joints, such as a prehensile long neck or tail. In this work, we present a convenient interface to pose multiple joints at once by snapping them to a user-drawn stroke.


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